If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
I tried to write backwards so I could take a picture of it and the word not be backwards in the picture… — Cassandra Crosby Copy Share Image
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt,… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
We don't know where the lines should be drawn. Which to me means that we people of goodwill have to bend over… — Maria Echaveste Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to walk backwards for a reason: it's easier to fall. Sure, going ahead you could stumble, but you would… — Jhiess Krieg Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Dont waste your time looking back for what you have lost, move on for life wasnt meant to be traveled backwards. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to… — Bobby Heenan Copy Share Image
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I realize now that there is a certain order to living; a person suffers when they don't follow that order. I must… — Juliet Valcourt Copy Share Image
...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We… — Larry Hite Copy Share Image
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.” — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“Move forward. Going backwards will only complicate your life and those close to your heart.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more… — Margaret Young Copy Share Image
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“If there were a Jessica Chase instruction manual, it would be written backwards in Arabic Pig Latin and twelve thousand pages long… — Olivia Cunning Copy Share Image
![“[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/afc/george-saunders-317_backwards_lincoln-in-the-bardo-is-not-a-long-book_2176474.jpg)
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